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Chapters
Chapter 1: Wrapped Around Her Ankle
Chapter 2: Meat Is Meat
Chapter 3: No Interest
Chapter 4：Fed The Whiskey
Chapter 5: The Reconstructed Face
Chapter 6: Two Buttons Short
Chapter 7: Her Name
Chapter 8: Fish Girl
Chapter 9: He Laughed When I Swore
Chapter 10: Bike Race
Chapter 11: Mrs. Chen’s Fried Chicken
Chapter 12: Teenage Longings Under Night’s Veil
Chapter 13: Just Boat Whores
Chapter 14: When Heroes Fall
Chapter 15: Lights on the Water
Chapter 16: Unraveling Threads
Chapter 17: You Weren't This Cold In Bed
Chapter 18: The Most Gifted Softball Student
Chapter 19: Every Man's Sexual Fantasy in Town
Chapter 20: They're Inside
Chapter 21: August 30,Transfer Day
Chapter 22: Hit and Run-In
Chapter 23: Bad Habits in the Dark
Chapter 24: The Yellowed Bra
Chapter 25: Unexpected Kindness
Chapter 26: You're Going to Win
Chapter 27: Blue Ostrich
Chapter 28: She's Got More Backbone Than You Do
Chapter 29: Second Place Son
Chapter 30: Midnight Visitor
Chapter 31: Maybe We Could Try
Chapter 32: Champion Fucker
Chapter 33: The Real Clown
Chapter 34: White Daisies and My Guilt
Chapter 35: A Piece of Fabric
Chapter 36: The Photography
Chapter 37: She Wasn't As Sexy and Beautiful As You Are
Chapter 38: Lover from New York
Chapter 39: When the Wind Howls
Chapter 40: Coward
Chapter 41: It's For Your Mom
Chapter 42: The Five-Thousand-Dollar Secret
Chapter 43: Blood on Marble
Chapter 44: Christmas Eve in a Cell
Chapter 45: Maybe My Mother Is Right About Girls Like You!
Chapter 46: Kneeling for Mercy
Chapter 47: Faded Dream
Chapter 48: She Would Never Commit Suicide
Chapter 49: It's Always The Husband
Chapter 50: Perfect Answers
Chapter 51: The White Sheet
Chapter 52: The Uninvited Guest
Chapter 53: So Who’s Stealing Whom?
Chapter 54: You Can Shoot?
Chapter 55: The Last Conversation
Chapter 56: Missing
Chapter 57: When the Wolves Come Calling
Chapter 58: The Debt Collectors
Chapter 59: You Can Use Your Bodies as Collateral
Chapter 60: The Floating Casino
Chapter 61: The Special New Home
Chapter 62: The Woman from New York
Chapter 63: The Leap
Chapter 64: The Empty Apartment
Chapter 65: Mistress of the Mob
Chapter 66: The Grave Visit
Chapter 67: The Loaded Gun
Chapter 68: The Woman Shared by Father and Son
Chapter 69: Moans Through Thin Walls
Chapter 70: 2800 Dollars
Chapter 71: Do I Really Look Like A Peach Now?
Chapter 72: You're Gonna Need It
Chapter 73: Why Not Sell Houses Instead of Softballs
Chapter 74: Dream big. Close bigger!
Chapter 75: I'm A Screw-up
Chapter 76:Dialing Danger at Midnight
Chapter 77: My New York Dream Has Come True
Chapter 78: Maybe He Has Something on Nina's Mother
Chapter 79: Not Her Boyfriend At All
Chapter 80: The Lie Unravels
Chapter 81: Hand On My Thigh
Chapter 82: Monica Disappeared
Chapter 83: Shared Secrets
Chapter 84: She's Cheating!
Chapter 85: Women's Weapons
Chapter 86：Body as Currency
Chapter 87: Sold for Nothing
Chapter 88: Last Resort
Chapter 89: The Rules Behind This City
Chapter 90: The Revelation
Chapter 91: Homecoming
Chapter 92: Frosting and Cracks
Chapter 93: The Sex Tape Threat
Chapter 94: Stay Tonight
Chapter 95: Special Roommate
Chapter 96: The Missing Year
Chapter 97: Stripper Roommate
Chapter 98: Back to Square One
Chapter 99: Dreams Deferred
Chapter 100: False Accusations
Chapter 101: Every Bare Inch
Chapter 102: New York Cops
Chapter 103: His Crazy Proposal
Chapter 104: New Beginnings
Chapter 105: First Time in His Room
Chapter 106: Studying Between the Sheets
Chapter 107: Letting Go
Chapter 108: Sleeping Her Way to the Top
Chapter 109: The Fallen Man
Chapter 110: Coffee Shop Memories
Chapter 111: The Last Lesson
Chapter 112: How Did You Become a Stripper?
Chapter 113: Power in the Spotlight
Chapter 114: Lupus
Chapter 115: The Butterfly Rash
Chapter 116: The Decision
Chapter 117: Trapped
Chapter 118: Cold Barrel
Chapter 119: The Boyfriend Nobody Saw
Chapter 120: Confessions
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Chapter 21: August 30,Transfer Day
Dean's POV
Softball.
Of all the activities she could have suggested, why softball?
The image from Mrs. Henderson's living room flashed through my mind again. Nina Harlan in her blue and gold uniform, standing tall in the back row of that championship team, her smile radiant and confident.
"Softball ...